deadlinks

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Health checks for your documentation links.

Features

• Concurrent and recursive checks
• Respect robots.txt restrictions (content only)
• External links checks
• Checking links within base url path
• Retries in the case of 502, 503 and 504 http errors

Installing

Using package installer for Python

# using pip - package installer for Python
pip install deadlinks

Mac

# we using custom tap to install deadlinks
brew install butuzov/deadlinks/deadlinks

Using forked repo for development propose.

# activate virtual environment to keep your local site-packages clean.
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip

# in case if you developing within forked repository
cd /home/path/to/deadlinks
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .

Usage

See more examples at docs

# Check links (including external) at http://gobyexample.com/ in 10 threads,
# but not ones that leading to domains play.golang.org or github.com
deadlinks gobyexample.com -n 10 -e -d play.golang.org -d github.com

# Limiting check only to links found within /docs path.
deadlinks http://localhost:1313/docs

# Running checks for all local links that belong to a domain.
deadlinks http://localhost:1313/docs/ -n 10 --full-site-check

# Checking local html files
deadlinks internal -n 10 --root=/var/html

# Help yourself
deadlinks --help

Contributing

Here is a quick start guide to contributing to deadlinks

• Fork deadlinks repository.
• Create feature branch based on develop.
• Install package using development instructions.
• Implement your feature and test it with make tests and make lints.
• Create pull request back to development branch.

All your contributions are welcome!